cultural identity

Building Cultural Competencies

Understanding cultural values and behaviors is an important aspect of effective management, leadership and teamwork. In the absence of cultural understanding, it is possible that unconscious biases and behaviors may hold you back from achieving greater effectiveness. By broadening your understanding of culture, and how it influences thoughts and behaviors, you become equipped to critically…

Four Things That Occur Within Our Brains When we Experience Fear

Fight/Flight Feeling a strong need to defend – defend our position, our status, our self-esteem – whatever we are afraid of losing. It is paralyzing to growth and transformation. Exclude Exclude or close yourself off to opportunities to explore different ways to approach situations. We are often blind to emotional reactions that were learned through…

Inclusion

How Does Inclusion Make Leaders Successful?

Q & A With Rosalie Chamberlain By LaDonna Baertlein ROSALIE CHAMBERLAIN brings unique experience and perspective to creating successful diversity and inclusion initiatives, based upon a 34-year foundation of law firm and corporate experience, including work as a diversity and inclusion manager. She has served a range of government and private industries, both large and…